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💡 Make Sure to Review the HJF Research Guides. This will get you started in using the HJF resources, basic research skills, and some more advanced tips & tricks that will save you time and make your research more effective.
The HJF has a large selection of books & eBooks regarding this topic. A very short list has been assembled to provide some direction to those that seek a starting point. This is not even close to an exhaustive list. Take note of the various subject terms for each title and use those to find additional titles regarding the same topics. A small list of suggested subject terms is provided below as well.
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“JSTOR includes journal content, primary sources, images, and more across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences” (JSTOR 2011). Although most content found here is full-text, researchers may also find links to articles that are not available online through Morningside. The HJF Library provides access through JSTOR to 15 Arts & Sciences Collections and 1 Life Science Collection.
💻 MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
“Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals and series, as well as book publishers. MLA International Bibliography covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography" (EBSCOhost 2019).
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Several fully-digitized cultural, literary, and political magazines published in the first two decades of the 20th century. A few examples include The English Review, The Little Review, Scribner's, and Poetry.
🌐 Literary Modernism BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time
BBC Radio 4 discussion with John Carey, Laura Marcus and Valentine Cunningham (In Our Time, Apr. 26, 2001)
🌐 Bloomsbury Group Collection at the Victoria University Library at University of Toronto
Victoria University Library has a number of special collections concerning the Bloomsbury Group. Chief among these is the Virginia Woolf Collection consisting of more than 3000 items.
National Trust biography made in conjunction with the University of Oxford. Provides additional information on locations associated with Woolf as well as other collections.
🌐 Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
On this website you will find information about the Society and information about Virginia Woolf herself. Under Virginia Woolf Resources you will find a wealth of Woolf information, including a short biography, bibliographies, articles, illustrations and links to related sites.
Published in 2013, Woolf Online is currently a digital archive of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927).
This course incorporates a lot of literary criticism and theory. This brief section will provide some background on these concepts as well as some suggestions on finding sources related.
What is Literary Criticism?
Literary criticism is the term given to studies that define, classify, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of literature. There are many types of literary criticism: some examples include historical criticism, textual criticism, feminist criticism, and formalist criticism. Literary criticism may examine a particular literary work or it may look at an author's writings as a whole.
Finding Literary Criticism
The best option is using the databases listed above. Combine terms such as "literary criticism" or "literary theory" with your author's name or the title of the work. You can also try searching for authors or titles with a specific theory, such as feminism.
There can be some challenges in researching theory or criticism. Sometimes there just is not much written about an author or work, especially if they are a contemporary author or a woman or minority author. If you are struggling to find sources, make sure to contact a librarian or talk to your instructor. Also make sure to check out our Gale Literary Criticism reference collection. We have Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and Contemporary Literary Criticisms, among others. These are huge sets of books that reference works and authors and the criticisms written about them. They can be difficult to use if you have never used them before, so don't hesitate to ask a librarian for help.